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Show THERE WAS A FIGHT. Wild Scene at a Woman Suffrajje Meeting Over Which Florence Dixie Presided Pre-sided Last Kveuiiif;. London", April 27. Florence Dixie presided presi-ded at a meetine held in St. James hall last evening in support of Sir Albert Rollin's woman's suffrage bill. The speakers were much annoyed by a noisy minority, and toward to-ward 10 o'clock, while Bernard Shaw was speaking, the platform was stormed by the malcontents; the reporters' table and platform plat-form were demolished, and a free fight ensued, which, after twenty minutes, ended iu a victory for the malcontents. Then they , placed their owu leader in the jhair and car-lied car-lied a resolution declaring that Sir Albert Rollin's partial measure was unworthy of support, and that full female suffrage ought to be given. |